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Canal and River Maps
- This series of early 19th century maps depict proposed canals and associated rivers throughout Maine. Emphasis is placed on surveys that demonstrate the course of the Sebasticook River. Notable map makers include James Hall and W.L. Dearborn among others.
Page 39. Plan of four tracts of land containing 9562 acres bordering New Hampshire
- Plan of four tracts of land adjoining New Hampshire line, now Riley and Grafton area. Includes front and back of page.
- Type: OBJECT
BMC 13--L'Amerique, ou, Le nouveau continent : dresseè sur les memoires les plus nouveaux et sur les relations les plus recentes, rectifiez sur les dernieres observàtions. 1742
- Published in Paris by John Baptist Nolin (mapmaker); Engraver: Charles Cochin Covers Western Hemisphere from New Zealand to western coast of Europe and Africa. Rare map of America, one of the earliest to illustrate the Sea of the West. The map also includes an interesting treatment of Florida as an Archipelago, and detail in California and the Mississippi Valley. Also includes an interesting projection of New Zealand and location of many Islands in the Pacific, many of which are either fanciful or badly misplaced. Nolin dedicates this map to Monseigneur LAW controlleur general des finances. John Law was a Scottish financier, who was masterminding the economic recovery of France, one element of his plan being the exploitation of the French possessions in Louisiana, the so-called Mississippi scheme, which was briefly successful and set off a wild period of speculation, before the Mississippi Bubble burst. Law fled to Venice in disgrace, but not before creating one of the first speculative booms based upon American real estate.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 19--Carte nouvelle contenant la partie d'Amerique la plus septentrionale, ou sont exactement dêcrites les provinces suivantes comme le Canada ou Nouvelle France, la Nouvelle Ecosse, la Nouvelle Angleterre, les Nouveaux Païs Bas, la Pensylvanie, la Virginie, la Caroline et l'Jle de Terre Neuve avec les profondeuis le long des côtes et sur les bancs
- Map of southeastern Canada and Newfoundland. Includes Nova Scotia and Acadia, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Cape Breton, and the Grand Banks fishing grounds.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps